Principal Consultant - Agricultural Finance Facility & Blended Finance

About the role

A Principal Consultant is sought to lead the end-to-end design of a multi-source agricultural financing facility and its blended-capital architecture. The role combines financial structuring, engagement with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and impact investors, negotiation of risk-sharing arrangements and development of a capital-mobilisation strategy. It is an India-based position with an extended project to Nigeria, within an embedded Technical Support Unit (TSU) of senior specialists that reports to the TSU Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Assess the Institution's existing funding base and map the broader agricultural-finance capital landscape.
• Design the facility's capital structure and blended-capital architecture, including SPV structures, capital tranching, waterfalls, risk allocation and exit or takeout mechanisms.
• Structure guarantees, co-investment arrangements and risk-sharing facilities with development partners and capital providers.
• Lead engagement with DFIs, foundations, impact investors, commercial lenders and guarantee providers.
• Develop an investor pipeline and validate proposed structures with prospective anchor investors and initial transactions.
• Prepare or oversee financing documentation, investor presentations, reporting standards and the capital-mobilisation strategy.
• Advise executive management on capital strategy and support engagement with concessional and commercial capital providers.
• Collaborate with the agri-finance and credit-risk specialist to align guarantee and risk-sharing structures with lending products.
• Support the programme's transition and sustainability plan, transferring tools, processes and stakeholder relationships to designated Institution teams.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Development Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline; CFA or equivalent is an advantage.
• 15+ years of experience in blended finance, structured finance or development finance, preferably with DFIs or impact investors.
• Demonstrated experience structuring SPVs, guarantees and risk-sharing facilities through to committed capital.
• Established network across DFIs, foundations and impact investors, with strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
• Proven experience advising executive management teams and Boards of financial institutions.
• Desirable: experience in African or emerging-market development finance, particularly Nigeria, leading institutional transformation programmes and working on development-partner-funded programmes.